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Protest against PSC decision to move Supreme Court

ALAPPUZHA: The Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam has protested the reported move of the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) to move the Supreme Court against the High Court directive that appointments to government services should be made on a 50:50 merit-reservation ratio.

Addressing a press conference after a board meeting of SNDP at Cherthala near here on Thursday, general secretary Vellappally Natesan said that by moving the apex court on the issue, PSC would be harming the interests of the backward classes, who stood to gain by the High Court directive.

The meeting, Mr. Natesan said, had passed a resolution demanding that the State government and PSC should desist from supporting covert moves by certain vested interests to sabotage the concept of reservation.

The government, he alleged, was actually helping such vested interests by not taking a decision on the issue for the last six months. The United Democratic Front too had adopted “double standards” on the merit-reservation issue.

Stating that backward classes in the State were facing discrimination because of the lack of unity among them, Mr. Natesan said SNDP would bring together like-minded backward class organisations and communities to launch a massive public agitation against discrimination against these classes. SNDP had a formula of its own to solve the issue, he said, adding that it would submit the same to the government if it was asked to.

The meeting also passed a resolution demanding that the annual income ceiling to decide on the creamy layer should be hiked to Rs.9 lakh per annum. SNDP president M.N. Soman and others were also present.

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